To think that you do NOT use naice wine as cooking wine?!

DP polished off the 1/3 of a bottle left of wine that I had treated myself to the night before by POURING it into the STEW

He says if it's not good enough to drink, it's not good enough to cook with.

I say that one does not casually use naice wine in cooking especially if it is the last bit in the house and that if you eat food that has been made with wine it does not make a difference if it is £3 plonk or naice.

And yes - if recipe calls for just a small glass of wine i use port for red and vermouth for white. They last ages in the booze cupboard and you don't have to open a whole bottle if you just need a bit.

Ah well maybe I am not as classy as some on here but I will drink £5 wine from lidl some of it is quite ok actually. Thing is on a weeknight i would feel extravagant getting £7+ wine. So would not put it in stew!

YABU: believe me, my husband is French and he would never cook or let me cook with wine which was not equally good from a glass. It's all about flavour and if you put nasty wine in your stew, you'll get nasty stew.However, I do have some sympathy with you if it was a "special" bottle you'd got as a treat..... the stew would have been edible without the addition of wine.... there are other things he could have used for flavour...... Worcester sauce, for example. In our household we have his bottles and her bottles and neither would touch the other's booze without checking it was OK..... although we mostly share them as a matter of course.

Yanbu, he would have been wearing the stew for that! I'm no cook, or foodie for that matter, but do love to drink wine and really look forward to a decent glass. Putting it in food is to me a total waste, food is fuel and so quickly devoured while wine should be savoured.

YABU I always use wine that I want to drink as once it's cooked and the alcohol has burned off all that's left of the wine is the taste. 'Cooking' wine makes food taste like rough wine. Drinkable wine = drinkable wine taste. It doesn't have to be expensive, just nice tasting.

Your DH was also BU though, because he didn't ask if you were finished with the wine, which is outrageous behavior IMO.